Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...embassy being run temporarily by the ambassador's bumbling son (Michael J. Fox). Despite its dated cold war plot, the 1966 play shows that Allen even at this early stage was a skilled farceur. The Hollanders' presence in the embassy causes mounting chaos involving a visiting emir, a fugitive priest who does magic and a stuffy embassy official who gets conked on the head and thinks he's the Wright Brothers. Both of them...
...SHOCKING TRAGEDY: Aping Reagan's fondness for Hollywood history, Gingrich restated his support for orphanages. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, he said, should "rent Boys Town," the uplifting but highly idealized movie about the Nebraska home run by a priest who insisted "there are no bad boys." Declaring that orphanages were better than Dumpsters, Gingrich claimed that in Washington alone, 800 babies a year were left in the trash...
...Czerny's performance in the role is nothing less than stellar--as his steely eyes glitter, he brings to light both the calculated ruthlessness as well as the moments of ferocious anger in this complex character. Silent and introspective, Kevin is the perfect victim and foil for this brutal priest. The bruises which appear on the young boy's face become a map with disturbing clues to the extent to which his body and soul have been violated by Father Lavin...
...that's been underway since September when the Irish Republican Army declared a ceasefire. Still, he has criticized the quick pace with which his predecessor, Albert Reynolds, embraced the IRA. Reynolds lost his seat in a scandal last month over the extradition of an alleged child-abusing Roman Catholic priest. Bruton was elected to head his country in an 85-74 vote. He now heads a government formed with the support of a coalition of three parties...
Finally, the film turns to Charalambos Demosthenous, a flute-maker and priest. He relates how his son was killed during the Turkish invasion. As a memorial to him, Demosthenous planted a palm tree at the edge of the ocean. The film shows Demosthenous performing his paternal duty by watering the tree, and Chrysanthou and Kizilyurek make their own pilgrimage there, buckets of water in hand...